US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago on Jan. 20 for "Methods and compositions for treating staphylococcal infections" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,882, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Methods and compositions for treating staphylococcal infections" was invented by Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago), Olaf Schneewind (Chicago) and Xinhai Chen (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides novel compositions for treating bacterial infections. Accordingly, aspects of the disclosure relate to an engineered antibody comprising: LCDR1, LCDR2, and LCDR3 of the light chain variable region of the 3F6 antibody and HCDR1, HCDR2, and HCDR3 of the heavy chain variable region of the 3F6 antibody. Also provided are compos...